The works of Nicole Woischwill und Marc Zenner that are shown in the framework of MONAT DER FOTOGRAFIE-OFF BERLIN 2020 came into being before the world knew of Corona. However, both artists postulate unisono: BREATHE! (ATME!)

For that matter the rich yellow of the departing U-Bahn is framing the letters STADTMITTE so decisively as if Marc Zenner held his breath when he took the picture.
Where his photographs are out and about, Nicole Woischwill dives into waterbreathing. Her series THE STUBBORNNESS OF SILENT THINGS (VOM EIGENSINN DER LEISEN DINGE) turns to the inside. The dance of light and shadow of her watercreatures is a mere movement of respiration. What is underlying yet unsettles, the flash point of her playful motives was the attack of the Bataclan in Paris. In 2015 Woischwill is working in a press agency and the images of violence are flooding incessantly, taking her breath away to the point of insufferableness. The introversion of her art is a response to all, creating a space out of time to breathe deeply again.

In this, both positions in the exhibition explore what BREATHE! could mean from a photographic standpoint and that is: to pause for a moment with the eyes.
(Text: Dr. Melanie Stumpf)

Framework program

Saturday, Oct 10, 2020, 4 pm
Opening Reception
Introduction: Dr. Melanie Stumpf (Cultural scientist) | Music: Jaspar Libuda (Double bass solo)

Saturday, Nov 21, 2020, 4 pm > POSTPONED to 2021
Finissage & Artist Talk
Frank Silberbach (Photographer) in conversation with Nicole Woischwill & Marc Zenner. The talk will be held in German.
>> This event is cancelled and will take place in 2021 instead. The new date will be announced on PiB’s website.

Read more about the exhibition (in German) on the Rathaus Friedrichshagen website!

Oct 11 — Nov 21, 2020
Opening Reception: Saturday, Oct 10, 4 pm
Framework program: please see above

Historisches Rathaus Friedrichshagen

Bölschestraße 87/88, 12587 Berlin
[District: Friedrichshagen | Borough: Treptow-Köpenick]

Opening hours: Tue + Sat + Sun 2 – 6 pm

Admission free